"Principal Cha, are you afraid of death?"
Cha Huan blew on his teacup and, facing Le Yin’s audacious words, didn’t even lift an eyebrow: "Afraid, so I broke the necks of everyone who dared to attack ."
"That’s still not thorough enough. You say you’re a weak and ordinary old man who usually doesn’t provoke anyone, yet so people dare to target you. You should strike first and kill the families of those who want to kill you but haven’t acted yet." Le Yin coaxed gently, "What do you think, am I right?"
"Makes sense."
"Would you like to do that?"
"Of course I would.
"Then why don’t you take a bus over and kill them all? Don’t worry, the academy has . If anything happens to you, I will take care of the Imperial Academy for you."
Cha Huan did not answer, drank a sip of tea leisurely, then raised his sleeve to reveal his muscular left arm.
"What do you think of my left arm?" he asked.
"Just that?" Le Yin raised an eyebrow, "Frankly, if you threw a punch at , you’d soon be begging not to kill you."
Joking aside, one must still admit defeat—let’s not forget that Cha Huan is the master of the Platinum Tower. Even without this status, he himself is a veteran martial pillar of Yanjing and could indeed flatten Le Yin with one hand.
Cha Huan’s resu has one line that Le Yin found unforgettable: Cha Huan graduated from the Imperial Academy at 24, and in the sa year, reached the Peak of Perfection realm, accumulating decades of experience in the highest level of martial arts.
What does this an? Even with the ’Heart of Neisser’ cheat, and practicing Forbidden Battle Techniques, Qin Le Yin tried all sorts of orthodox and unorthodox thods, yet at 24, he was still a re Integration and Mastery realm, unable to punch through a steel door as thick as a fist.
Compared to Cha Huan, who had near-negative asset educational conditions, the privileged learning resources Qin Le Yin had would sha anyone.
Borrowing from the evaluation of the Radiant Four Guardians, Cha Huan is a once-in-a-century genius. In fact, this is the truth: after Cha Huan, throughout Radiant, hardly anyone could match his abilities...
Except for Le Yin’s old rival.
Speaking of which, Le Yin never knew the realm of Blue Fla, nor his age. After all, he seed about twenty-sothing but had the maturity of soone thirty or forty. Although Blue Fla’s Peak of Perfection realm was known, when he served as the Director of the Statistical Departnt, he didn’t display world-altering strength.
Yet Blue Fla had never lost, always handling any adversary with ease...that’s all.
"Look more closely," Cha Huan said casually.
Le Yin restrained his playful thoughts, stared for a while, and soon noticed sothing: "The skin tone of your forearm and upper arm are different. The forearm looks older, while the upper arm is whiter and softer, with a faint dividing line... Your hand was broken?"
Cha Huan nodded, lowering his sleeve: "It was forcefully broken."
"Soone could actually break your arm?" Le Yin asked in surprise.
"It wasn’t just one person but three," Cha Huan said calmly, "Thirty years ago, I did what you suggested—for a full moonless night, dressed in semi-dark clothes, wore a mask purely for decoration, and spent three and a half hours wiping out the family giving trouble, leaving only four children under ten unhard."
"Even you took three and a half hours; it doesn’t seem like a small family," Le Yin said.
"In Yanjing, it was only a nouveau riche family of the last century, producing two Ministers, three Assistant Ministers, and one cabinet Grand Scholar."
As Cha Huan spoke of this past, his tone was like a player gloating over an achievent: "Unlike now, back then the massacre involving the purple-clad operatives shocked Yanjing, everyone discussing my deeds."
Le Yin raised an eyebrow: "Was it exhilarating?"
"Absolutely exhilarating!" Cha Huan said decisively, "In these decades, I haven’t regretted that night of massacre for even a day. That family was really annoying, plotting against my career, sending assassins to chase , targeting my friends. Damn it, really thought their power could block my sword!?"
"I rember killing that Grand Scholar; he actually said my refusal to serve as his son’s lackey led to this carrot-and-stick approach—making feel threatened first, then offering goodwill. They’d even marry to his daughter... I just said fine, go explain to your daughter!"
Le Yin said, "Actually, targeting only the main wrongdoer might have worked...?"
"But they didn’t only bug ," Cha Huan snorted, "Have you t Xie Liting?"
Le Yin: "Manager Xie is a very interesting person."
"Back then, he was frad, shut in a narrow sealed box for three days, still scared to enter any toilet less than ten square ters, avoiding small boxes like the plague."
The old man spoke slowly, "If they only troubled , I might have so interest in playing with them."
"However, since their play was this thrilling, I was bound to keep them entertained. Besides, targeting only the main wrongdoers is too troubleso; I was lazy to verify who had targeted and who was innocent. As long as they ssed with , no one stood for my justice, so I unreasonably killed them all, quite reasonable."
"I’m not a god, don’t need to be that fair, as long as I’m satisfied. If I did kill the wrong person, maybe years later, I’ll go down and apologize~"
"Speaking of, there’s a small episode," Cha Huan chuckled, "I did treat those three main wrongdoers differently. I tied the intestines of the Grand Scholar and his two sons around their necks, then hung them at the mansion gate, facing the Imperial Court, blood all over."
"To this day, that scene is still my fourth favorite view."
Le Yin decided not to ask his top three favorite views, instead asked, "Is your broken hand related to this?"
"Yes, since such massacres are rare across centuries, and I didn’t hide it much; everyone knew I did it and called for my execution. The then Emperor Xianzong was an idiot, far worse than his son, actually sending three martial pillars to hunt ."
"I escaped from Yanjing to the ancient tree forest in Canglan District, changed identity and joined the Hunter exam in Canglan District. Ironically, greatness led to beco the top Hunter of that year, earning the ’Cyan Star’ title, naturally discovered by the three martial pillars chasing . As I fled and counterattacked, in the end, I still couldn’t win, severely injured one, but my left arm was torn off."
"Although my arm was ripped, the three martial pillars had what they needed to report, eventually stopped hunting . I spent half a year recovering in Canglan District, until my left hand grew back and then sneaked back to Yanjing, to find my ntor, the then Principal Dou Jincheng."
Speaking of this, Cha Huan couldn’t help but sigh: "Actually, I simply wanted him to write a letter of recomndation, and to take that boy Xie Liting along to beco a General fighting against the Barbarian Race at the border, didn’t expect that old fool...old Principal Dou wouldn’t write it, offering protection and absolution for , but with a price."
"The price was for you to beco the Principal?" Le Yin guessed.
"I was definitely unwilling; Old Dou said I only needed to require ten years, within which I was to train the next Principal, then I could leave." Cha Huan said this without sparing his ntor’s dignity, directly calling ’Old Dou’: "Old Dou tearfully begged, flattered, reasoned, I couldn’t refuse, so I agreed."
"Turns out one term lasted thirty years."
Cha Huan sighed, "How many thirty years do we have in life..."
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